Among the many memorials to the ‘great
and the good’ in London’s Westminster
Abbey, there is one made of black marble
and inscribed with letters of gold which
reads: ‘This tablet was placed here … in
thankful commemoration of William
Tyndale, B:1490 D:1536, translator of
the Holy Scriptures into the language of
the English people. A martyr and exile
in the cause of liberty and pure
religion, he fulfilled the precept which
he had taught, “There is none other way
into the kingdom of life than through
persecution and suffering of pain and of
very death after the example of
Christ”’.
English-speaking Christians especially
owe a great debt of gratitude to William
Tyndale. In Introducing Tyndale John
Piper introduces the reader to the
deeply moving story of Tyndale’s life
and death. This serves to whet the
appetite for what comes next: an extract
from one of Tyndale’s significant works
in which the reformer clearly explains
and robustly defends the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ in response to one of
his fiercest critics. A brief epilogue
by the late Robert J. Sheehan outlines
Tyndale’s many-sided legacy, bringing
the book to a fitting conclusion.
Introducing Tyndale brings to life
Tyndale the man, his writings and
legacy, for twenty-first-century
Christians, and encourages the further
exploration of Tyndale’s works.